Sunday, October 18, 2009

31 Days of Halloween - Day 18

Today's collage portrait is Ro-Man from ROBOT MONSTER (1953) played by George Barrows with John Brown providing Ro-Man's voice. I have no idea who designed this cool looking monster, though it was probably less designed than cobbled together with what was at hand.

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The monster wasn't exactly designed at all so you're right about the cobbled together theory.

As the story goes, the movie budget didn't allow them to create the robot suit as intended so director Phil Tucker had George Barrows bring in his own gorilla suit (which he owned since he played gorillas in quite a few movies and tv shows), then they stuck a space helmet on him instead of the gorilla head and thus Ro-Man was born!

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John Rozum is best known for writing supernatural themed comics aimed at adults such as XOMBI, MIDNIGHT, MASS., THE X-FILES, and THE HANGMAN featured in THE WEB, or for writing supernatural themed comics for children such as SCOOBY-DOO or THE SECRET SATURDAYS in CARTOON NETWORK ACTION PACK.
He's written many other comics as well as magazine articles, television episodes and even trading cards. He also does occasional illustration work, and accepts commissions.